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About 26 miles south of Las Cruces, near the Texas line
Plumbing in Anthony, NM, near the state line.
Anthony, New Mexico, is a larger community south of Las Cruces near the New Mexico–Texas line — on the order of 26 miles from Las Cruces, farther than Vado or Mesilla. The 2020 census population was 8,714. There is also an Anthony on the Texas side; when you request a plumber, specify Anthony, NM and the street.
This is still Doña Ana County, but it is not on the assumption that every house uses Las Cruces municipal water. Southern county systems, including those associated with the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority in hardness datasets, have been listed with different (sometimes higher) hardness estimates than the city. Those figures are not a substitute for a tap test, but they are a warning not to copy a Las Cruces softener size blindly.
Drive time is longer than for Mesilla or Fairacres, so for an active leak, shut the water off if you can and say it is Anthony when you call, not simply “south of town.”